Cristina Patterson Ceret (born10 July1968; age 47) is a makeup artist, hair stylist and contact lens designer and painter who worked on several Star Trek series and films between 1998 and 2012.

Born in Madrid, Spain, Patterson Ceret moved with her family to California in 1969 and attended the Topanga Elementary school in Topanga, California. Her mother, Raffaelle Butler, worked as a makeup artist for Paramount Pictures on film projects such as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965) as well as several sitcoms and took Patterson Ceret with her to the film sets. At early age, she started to work in front of the camera as background actress. Some of her later acting work includes featured parts in the television series Casualty (1986), the television comedy Under Wraps (1997, with Clara Bryant, Ed Lauter, and Tom Virtue), and the horror comedy Decampitated (1998).

Among her over hundred feature film credits are the horror thriller Little Witches (1996), the comic adaptations Spawn (1997) and Blade (1997), the horror film Wishmaster (1997), the science fiction remake Planet of the Apes (2001), the drama A Beautiful Mind (2001), the comic adaptation Blade II (2002), the fantasy film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), the fantasy film Underworld (2003), the remake King Kong (2005), Bryan Singer's Superman Returns (2006), the sequels Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), the fantasy film Twilight (2008), the horror thriller Drag Me to Hell (2009), the science fiction thriller District 9 (2009), the science fiction thriller Surrogates (2009), the fanmtasy adventure Alice in Wonderland (2010), the remake A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), the science fiction sequel TRON: Legacy (2011), the science fiction film I Am Number Four (2011), the comic adaptations Thor (2011), X-Men: First Class (2011), and Green Lantern (2011), the drama J. Edgar (2011), the reboot The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), the fantasy adventure The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) and its sequel The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), the remake The Lone Ranger (2013), and the science fiction film Pacific Rim (2013).

More recent film credits include the war drama 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), the sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), the drama Child 44 (2014), the fantasy sequel The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2014), and the science fiction remake Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, starring Tom Hardy).